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It is official; the two remaining major players in the Canadian mobile phone industry will carry the iPhone. In two separate news releases, Bell Canada and Telus announced the launch of their new 3G network and partnerships with Apple that will allow them to carry the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. There is no official date set for the release but both corporate websites suggest it will be available in November.

With major mobile companies in Canada upgrading their network to support 3G, isn’t it time for Sprint and Verizon to do the same? We’re not sure but one thing is certain, they are missing a great opportunity with growing popularity of the iPhone. The fight should be over at this point and clearly 3G networks have won, it’s time to do right and get on the 3G bandwagon. The result for end users is more variety which in turn results in lower costs, more features and overall better innovation in Smartphones. Don’t hold your breathe but let’s see if Sprint and Verizon follow the lead of their northern counterparts.

So on Friday Apple released an update to the iPhone that patched the exploit/hack we talked about the other day that would let someone gain access to your phone and send messages and control more iPhones. This exploit was for all iPhones, from the original to the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 3Gs.

If you haven't already done so upgrade to the new 3.01 version of the iPhone software so you can avoid becoming a victim of this exploit.

If you have been waiting to upgrade because you are afraid your iPhone will get re-locked don't worry. According to BoyGenius Reports.com it looks like new unlocking software has been released.

So it looks like there is a major exploit set to wreck havoc on the Apple iPhone. This is for all Apple iPhones. Wired.com is reporting on it and they are saying that "a hacker could control all the functions on the iPhone, such as e-mailing, dialing contacts — and, most alarmingly, sending more text messages to hijack even more iPhones." This is really scary since from the sounds of it the person who hacks into your phone basically can do anything they want with your phone remotely.

The only thing you can do to prevent it apparently is turn off your iPhone and you know that you are being hacked if you receive a text message with a single square character according to Forbes.

At this point Apple has not issued any patch to prevent the exploit or commented on it as far as anyone has seen. Also please remember as was stated in the Wired article "researchers informed Forbes of the SMS exploit, it’s worth noting they did not demonstrate it to Forbes." So until we actually see someones Apple iPhone or 3GS get hacked or Apple confirm it we have to say take it with a grain of salt.

So it's getting closer to that time of year that many people wait anxiously for and no we're not talking about your birthday. We are talking about Apple iPhone release time. Every year, this being the 3rd annual, since 2007 Apple has been releasing a new iPhone in June/July. This year is shapping up to be no different. So we thought what is the best way to celebrate then try to get all the rumours together

Well it turns out we didn't have to. Our friends at wired.com were already did it for us.

The camera, GPS, compass and Google map combined will identify photo and inform about photo locations

Turn-by-turn directions

Keep in mind the above are all rumours. Every year there are tons of rumours. So we have about another month or so until we find out official what is going to be done for the next Apple iPhone, but like everyone PureMobile is eagerly waiting.